{"id":2004,"date":"2018-04-26T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2018-04-25T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T20:23:56","slug":"race-space-and-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2018\/04\/26\/race-space-and-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Race, Space, and Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the arrest of two Black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks<\/a>, public attention has increasingly focused on how race impacts whose presence in certain areas is questioned or not. The incident at Starbucks is part of a broader phenomenon about who we see as belonging or not-belonging in social settings and different spaces. Often, these perceptions — about who should and shouldn’t be at particular places — are rooted in race and racial difference. <\/span><\/p>\n

Research shows that beliefs about belonging particularly affect how Black people are treated in America. Sociologist Elijah Anderson has written extensively about how certain social settings are cast as a \u201cwhite space\u201d or a \u201cblack space.\u201d Often, these labels extend to public settings, including businesses, shopping malls, and parks. Labels like these are important because they can lead to differences in how some people are treated, like the exclusion of the two Black men from Starbucks.<\/h5>\n